Machine for use in packing biscuits.



No. 812,221. PATENTBD FEB. 13, 1906.

A. MAGNAN.

MACHINE FOR USE IN BAGKING BISCUITS. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1a, 1905.

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A. MAGNAN. MACHINE FOR USE IN BACKING BISOUlTS.

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Attorneys No. 812,221. PATENTED FFIB. 13,1206.

A. MAGNAN.

MACHINE FOR USE IN PACKING BISCUITS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.13, 1905.

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I Attorneys No. 812,221. 'PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906. A. MAGNAN.

MACHINE FOR USE IN PACKING BISCUITS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.13, 1906. I

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Attorneys PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906.

A. MAGNAN. MACHINE FOR USE IN. PACKING. BISCUITS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 13, 1905.

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Attorneys ADJUTOR MAGNAN. OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

MACHINE FOR USE l N PACKING BISCUITS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13,1906.

Application filed March 13,1905. Serial No. 249.966.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADJUTOR MAGNAN, a subject of the King-of England, residing in the city and District of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Dominion ofCanada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Use in Packing Biscuits; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,- such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in machines adapted to be used in conjunction with the manufacture of biscuits and similar articles, and is especially designed for use in arranging said biscuits in such manner that they may be easily lifted from the bed of the machine and be placed in packages such as are commonlyused for vending commodities of this character.

The object of this invention is to produce a machine of the character referred to which is-simple in operation and which will permit the dumping of biscuits into a common hopper or receptacle, from which such biscuits will be taken in the ordinary course of the operation of the machine and conveyed thence by suitable conveyers to racks in which the biscuits Will be stacked by automaticallyoperated machines operated in conjunction with such conveyers, so that biscuits will be regularly arran ed in such manner that they may be readily lifted from the bed of the machine by the operators who are engaged in paelking such biscuits into their proper receptac es.

Referrin to the annexed drawings, in which simi ar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the operative portion of the machine. Fig. 2 is an approximately central longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the operative parts of the machine. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary enlarged vertical sectional View of the exit end of the machine. Fig. 5 is a planview of the underframing with a portion of the feed-table. Fig. (i is a plan view of the end of the machine, ineluding a portion of the feed-table and the parts immediately adjacent thereto. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showin details of construction not disclosed in that gure. Fig. 8 is a detail view of a slide hereinafter re ferred to. Fig. 9 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating the spring-stops in the channels of the feed-table hereinafter referred to, and Fig. 10 is a detached enlarged detail view showing the construction of one of the stops.

Referring to the annexed drawings, 1 is a base from which rise suitable standards 2, supporting the bed-framing 3 of the super.- structure. Mounted between the standards 2 2 are shafts 4, 5, 6, and 7, the shaft 4 being provided with a pulley 8, upon which runs the belt 9, and the said shaft being the main driving-shaft of the machine. Driven from a pulley 10 on the shaft 4 is a belt 11', passing over the pulley 12 on the shaft 5, while the pulley 13 on said shaft actuates the belt 14, which passes thence over the pulley 15 on the shaft 6, while abelt 16, passing over the pulley 17, also on the shaft 6, extends thence upward] and over a pulley 18 on the shaft 19, which shaft is supported by means of the brackets 20, said brackets bein connected with the framing 3. Upon the be t 16 are cleats 21, suitably spaced apart so as to provide a convenient distance between said ,cleats to permit biscuits to lie within such space and upon the belt 16. Supported upon the frame 3 and in convenient proximity to the belt 16 is a hopper 22, rovided with a discharge-orifice 23 and wit the movable flap 24 at the lower side of said dischar e-orifice, said flap being normally projected downwardly and adapted to be engaged by the cleats 21 on said belt 16, as shown in the sectional View of Fig. 2.

In the following description of the machine it will be treated as if there were but one passage for the biscuits leading from a single hopper; but it is to be understood that the machine may be so constructed as to :be of almost any predetermined capacity limited only by the size of the machine and the available power adapted to be applied for actuating same. However, as the increase of capacity of "the machine is the result merely of the duplication of parts to a great extent, the assa e of a single line of biscuits therethroug fi will be descriptive in detail of the operation of the machine. A du lication of parts, while adding to the manifold advantages thereof, will result in no substantial change in its construction, except as may be hereinafter s )ecified. Hence the description of the operation will be confined to the passage of a single line of biscuits therethrough. In convenient position with relation to the shaft 19 and supported upon the brackets 20 is a chute 24, provided with side walls 25, the

1 ing upon the pulleys 29 and 30, said pulley being driven from the belt 31 passingover a pulley upon the shaft 7 and another pulley upon the shaft 32. The said belt 28 travels in'the direction indicated by the arrow in' Fig. 2 and conveys biscuits which fall 7 down on inclines 24* onto said belt 28 be- 1 tween the vertically-disposed partitions 33,

so that the said biscuits are projected upon the gravity-incline 34, which incline is provided with the partition-walls 35, so that the biscuits '36 (shown thereon in Fi 4) will be guided between the said vertica partitions. U on .said frame 3 is supported a shaft 37, w 'ch shaft is driven by means of the belt 38 from the main driving-shaft 4, while on the said shaft 37 is a crank-wheel 39, with which is connected the pitman 40, said itman being connected at its op osite end with the loop or eyelet 41 of the slide 42, which is shown in detail in Figs. 7 and 8, and said slide 42 is provided at opposite ends with the inclines 43 and has projecting laterally therefrom the angular extension 44. It will be evident that as the shaft 4 rotates the crank-wheel 39 will be given a corresponding movement and as biscuits are conveyed to the gravity-chute 34 by means of the belts 16 and 28 and the intervening chute 24* that the slide 42 will be given a horizontal reciprocatory movement. The objectof thishorizontalreciprocatory movement is to provide means for effecting the vertical reciprocatory movement of the gates 45 and 46,(shown, respectively, in Figs. 3, 4,and 7,) the said gates shding in vertical ways 47 and 48 in the uprights 49 and 50, respectively, which uprights are supported upon the bed-frame 3, before referred to. The gates 45 and 46 comprise a plurality of transverse extending rods or bars which connect with the vertical members 51 and 52, which transversely-extending members are provided with vertical openings through which are projected rods 53. The upper ends of said rods 53 are provided with caps 54, through which caps are projected the setscrews 55, which set-screws are adapted to bear upon said rods 53, whereby the said rods may be adjusted vertically with relation to the transversely-extending bars through which they are rojected. There are a number of these ro s 53 projecting through the transversely-extending bars, and each of said rods 53 is independently adjustable of the series and is also independently movable with tions 58 are sprin .actuated members 59, which are normally eld outwardly by means of the springs 60, which lie between said members and the partitions 58within the angular offset 61, provided in said partitions, as

shown in the sectionalview, Fig. 9.

Connected with the members 59 are links 62, provided with longitudinally-projected openings 63, while pins 64 ride in said openings 63 and limit the outward thrust of said members 59 under the influence of said spring. The ob'ect of the members 59 is to provide means or assisting in the vertical.

alinement of the biscuits 36. As shown in Fig. 4, the biscuits are fed through the said gates and drop by avity to the position shown at 36 in said gure, at which time the slide 42 will have been projected to a position so that the angular offset 44 thereof will impinge' the ends of the transverse plunger-rods 65, which-carry the reciprocatory plungers 66, said plungers being adapted to pass between the artitions 58, thereby riding up the'inclined bevel-face 67 of the said members 59 and projectin forwardly the biscuit, as 36, so that such biscuit will be stacked alongside of'the others between theways 58. To retract the plungers 66, the springs 68 are provided, which springs 68 are conneetedto the transversely-extending rod 68, support'- that further description thereof is not necessary. The conveyer 16 and. the belt 28 are caused to travel at different s eeds, the conveyer traveling at a relative y rapid speed and the belt 28 at a.slower' speed, whereby the saidbelt will be at all times supplied with a practically unbroken line of biscuits from end to end during the operation of the machine, thereby insuring greater uniformity of feed than could otherwise result.

The operation of my improved machine is as follows A supply of biscuits being dumped into the hopper, it is evident that when the operativeparts are set in motion from the driving-shaft 4 and connected pulleys, belting, &c., the conveyer 16 will feed biscuits from the said hopper to the chute 24 or a plurality of chutes arranged in parallelism 'across the machine and from thence will feed them onto the belt 28, from which belt they will be carried on to the gravity-chute 34, down which chute the biscuits will pass until they are stopped by the first gate till the slide 42 is projected to an extreme forwardly position-that is, a position in which the inclined face adjacent to the loop 41 will ride under the metallic bearing member 69, said member bearing upon the said inclined face and projecting the said gate vertically upward within its ways 47, thereby permit? ting the biscuits in alinement therewith to pass beyond said gate and dro to' the s ace between the first and secon space is Cpreferably of sufficient length to permit, if esired, two biscuits to occupy such s ace. The gates will remain dormant until t e slide has been projected to an extreme opposite movement, whereupon the incline 43 at the opposite end will actuate the metallic bearing-block 69*, which will ride up said incline, and thereby raise the gate 46 to release the biscuits held thereby and permit them to pass to positions shown at 36 in Fig. 4, whereupon the plungers 66 will roject said biscuits forwardly and stack tiiem in proper positions upon the feed-table 56, from which they may be removed for the purpose of placing them in convenient receptacles for transportation and storage. The table 56 is in the drawing shown broken off for the reason that it is preferred in ractice that said table shall be of a considera le length, and as it is approximately the same from end to end nofurther illustration is required thereof than is already disclosed in the drawing.

WhileI have shown in the accompanying drawings the preferred form of my invention, it will be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise form shown, for many of the details may be chan ed in form or position without affecting t e operativeness or utility of m invention, and I therefore reserve the rig t to make all such modifications as are included within the S00 e of the following claims or of mechanica equivalents to the structures set forth.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine-of the character described, a hopper, a conveyer, a gravity-chute, a plurality of successively-operable, gravity-stops, oppositely-beveled slides adapted to actuate said stops, and a reciprocatory plunger.

2. In a machine of the character described,

a hopper, a conveyer, a gravity-chute, a plurality of intern]ittently-reciprocatory gravity-stops pro'ecting into said chute, oppositely-bevele slides adapted to lift said stops, and a reciprocatory plunger.

3. In a machine of the character described, a hopper, a yieldable flap near the discharge- ()Iilifl' thereof, a conveyor, a gravity-chute, a plurality of independently-reciprocat0ry gate, W

gates cooperating therewith, slidable and oppositely beveled members adapted to lift said gravity-operable gates, and a reciprocatory lunger.

4. in a machine of the character described, a hopper, a conveyer, an inclined chute, a belt adapted to travel at less speed than said conveyer, a second chute, gravity-stops projectinginto said second chute, oppositelybeveled slides for lifting said stops, and a stacker.

5. In a machine of the character described, a hop er, a conveyer, an inclined chute, a belt t erebeyond, a second inclined'chute, gravity-operable stops in said chute, reciprocatory means for intermittently liftin said stops, a feed-table, and a stackeroperable in conjunction therewith.

6. In a machine of the character described,

a hopper, a conveyer, an inclined chute,

stops in said chute, means for reciprocating said stops, a feed-table, a stacker, and means operable from the stop-actuating means for actuating said stacker.

7. In a machine of the character described, a hopper, a conveyer, an inclined chute, a belt adapted to travel at a less speed than said conveyer, a second chute, reciprocatory stops 0 erable in series, and independently adapte to project into said second chute,

means for operating said stops, and plungers actuated by the stop-operating means.

8. In a machine of the class described, a hopper, a conveyer, an inclined chute, intermittently-operable ravity-stops, reciprocatory plungers, and s idable members adapted to impinge said plungers and to lift said stops.

9'. In a machine of the class described, a hopper, a conveyer, an inclined chute, a belt adapted to travel at a less speed than said conveyer, a chute therebeyond, stops in-said last-mentioned chute, a lunger, and a slidable member adapted to ift said stops and to actuate said plunger.-.

10. In a machine of the class described, a hopper, a conveyer, an inclined chute, a belt adapted to travel atless speed than said conveyer, an inclined chute therebeyond, stops in said last chute, a feed-table, spring-actuated grips on said table, and a stacker adapted to s read said grips. j

'11. n a machine of the character described, a conveyer, an inclined chute leading therefrom, a belt, a second chute therebeyond, a plurality of vel tically-reciprocatory gates adapted to enter said chute, slides for actuating said gates, a feedtable divided into longitudinal channels, spring-actuated en aging members projectinginto said channe s, and plungers adapted to be projected into said channels, said plungers being actuated by said slides.

= 12. In a machine of the character described, feeding means, an-inclined chute, tory member adaptedto operate said stops 10 stops in said chute, means for reciprocating saidstops, and a stacker comprisin springactuated guides and reciprocatory p%unger.

13. In a machine of the character described, feeding means, an inclined chute, stops operable in series in said chute, a stacker comprising spring-actuated guides and reciprocatory plunger, and a reciprocaand said plunger.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence oftWo Witnesses.

ADJ UTOR MAGNAN.

Witnesses J. E1) PAGE, M. MCALEER. 

